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“ Purdue-Kaplan online university one step closer to reality,” the Journal & Courier reports. Via the Coursera blog : “What’s Next in Employee Learning: Virtual Reality.” Jen Howard on “What Happened to Google’s Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books ?”

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A New York district court awarded Elsevier US$15 million in damages for copyright infringement by Sci-Hub , the Library of Genesis (LibGen) project and related sites.” Saxberg had previously been the Chief Learning Officer at Kaplan (and Edsurge, when covering the news , fails to disclose its financial ties to Kaplan ).

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” Wired on the project : “‘ ICE Is Everywhere’: Using Library Science to Map the Separation Crisis.” The former: Purdue University ; the latter: Kaplan University. Via the Google blog : “ Google ’s IT Support Professional Certificate enrolls in community college.” ” Testing.

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” The New York Times looks at “ anti-tax fervor ” in southern Oregon , which will result in the one public library in Roseburg closing its doors. Via Edsurge : “Why Donald Graham Sold Kaplan University to Purdue for $1.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Immigration and Education.

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Purdue University is buying Kaplan University for a dollar. Me, I wrote about how far Kaplan Inc ’s reach is in education politics and products. But do strive to maintain the narrative that universities are out-of-date and irrelevant, tech blog. Davis on the DML Central blog. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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And like so many products on this list, 3D printing was hailed as a revolution in education, and schools were encouraged to reorient libraries and shop classes towards “maker spaces” which would give students opportunities to print their plastic designs. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That).

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